No, I'm about 45 minutes southeast of Des Moines. The photos are dated 1994.

1060'

This a REALLY COOL site. Thanks for putting it up Kevin.


There is a little spot of land here in town that has been subdivided into residential lots but hasn't sold. The idea has been rolling around in my mind about, when we have the $, talking to the person who owns and see if they will sell us a block of lots at a discount rate since there is no deveopment yet. From the looks of the pic, the place looks the same in 95 as it does today. They've been sitting on it a while then - perhaps they would want to sell.

The "color" is the type of image that was taken, either by plane or satelite. Aerials are taken in 1 of 3 formats usually....B/W, Color, or ColorIR(infared..good for vegetation, land use etc).

Not all of the images are going to be the same time periods. Large urban metropolis' normally have more flights(sometimes yearly) than smaller areas..........thats why StLoser and Dungver have the color I'm sure. It costs more.

I know a large project is underway to refly some of the midwest now. there is also a project called "the national map" that will be coming together over the next few years that will give you access to an unbelievable amount of map data for alot of areas.

Porker.........you and the other Iowanians can get newer arials and more maps than tera server on another website, that only has IA data.

http://ortho.gis.iastate.edu/
use the "map search" tool. the color IR is 2002

there is another one like terraserver that showsed a color pic of my farm but i cant remember the name.

Thanks.

****ER.

I don't think Chicago is 5900 ft above sea level.....unless you are flying by....

Galena by Mississippi for snow sking is 900'-1000' ft.

100 feet below ground and digging furiously.
Sincerely,
Osama B.L.

mine is a really bad view,,,

What are all the trails for, chiefs4me? Are they walking trails or dirt roads or something else?

its actually a field behind us,,I am not where the red dot is,,I only have one neighbor on the right,,,the trails are paths that the cows made. It is sort of in the country and city both. The cows are all gone now and there are more houses,,68 to be exact. This picture was taken in 95 and the houses started being built in 94.